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I would just pre-mask it to give it a bit of stiffness and then apply it just like you would with cut vinyl. Probably quicker than monkeying around to get the roller height just right on the laminator. Dan

I suppose I just find it telling that you would find an asinine answer to a legitimate question so utterly funny. And no, I don't walk around bitter all the time. In fact I'm rarely bitter about anything. Dan

It appears you're easily amused. Dan

I believe what you're running into is something called the "winding rule". In other words the node direction is going in the same direction for each of the objects you're trying to combine. What you need to do is take one of the objects, select all nodes in that object and reverse the node...

And you're in the sign business? Dan

Greetings from Red Deer! Never tried making a font in CorelDraw but have used FontLab to make them and clean up crappy ones for my own use. Dan

We can get it here locally but if you want to "hand pick" it you pretty much have to cross the Continental Divide and head out to the West Coast.

Western Red Cedar, quarter sawn, 2" x 10" x by whatever length I can find.

Another advantage that often gets overlooked when the subject of proper color management comes up is the substantial savings in ink. I know there's many here that don't quite understand how that could possibly be but the savings are there for the taking. To put it in simple terms using just...

Good advice! One more thing. The OP said he was printing JPGs. JPGs are not the best files to be outputting to a wide format printer. A much better choice would be an uncompressed TIF. I try to maintain a PDF workflow but there are times when a problematic file necessitates preparing the file...

I've tried a few different auto-tracing applications and the one I found that worked the best was Vector Magic but even then the result still required editing. I can generally hand trace a bitmap quicker and certainly more accurately than any of the auto-tracing applications I've ever used...

Say you have a curve consisting of three nodes. In Illustrator when you delete the middle node it tends to want to flatten out the curve. In CorelDraw when you delete the middle node it considers the original curve and refines it quite nicely. When I'm working in CorelDraw with artwork that has...

They have listed as one of their products on this page: http://www.corel.com/corel/category.jsp?rootCat=cat110013&cat=cat4080073 Dan

For sign work CorelDraw has some distinct advantages over anything else out there. The three that come to mind right off hand are: Node editing is a much saner experience with CorelDraw than it is with Illustrator. Very important if you want smooth cut curves from your plotter. When working...

That's exactly the same way I do it! Most folks tend to do it the hard way and continue to do so even after they've seen how I do it. I can finish a carved sign in about a quarter of the time it takes using the carve first and paint/gild later method. Dan

A book that I refer to often is Leslie Cabarga's, "Logo, Font, and Lettering Bible." I consider it a MUST HAVE for anybody serious about sign design. One cool thing about Leslie is when you call the contact number on his website he's the one that actually answers the phone! Dan

No it didn't! The first thing that came to mind Bob was, "This bonehead doesn't have a clue about color management." You should seriously consider having a beer or two with your "Digital Color Doctor" buddies. There's a slim chance you may learn a thing or two about color management. Maybe...

What "Earth" are you from Bob? I can't help but think it's the "flat" one. Dan

We just tell our customers we don't accept Publisher files or for that matter Word docs. We're plenty busy enough without having to deal with that kind of aggravation. Dan

Quit being a knob Bob! If a proper ICC color management workflow is somehow offensive to you then go ahead and do things your way. I'm not forcing you to use a proper ICC color management workflow but I will tell you that the way your doing it now is most certainly NOT color management now...